Mahdi al-Gharawi

Mahdi al-Gharawi was a Lieutenant-General of the Iraqi Army.

Biography
al-Gharawi was a Lieutenant-General in the Iraqi Army, commanding the Iraqi Federal Police in Ninewa Province of northern Iraq. In June 2014, during the ISIS Offensive in the north, al-Gharawi changed his clothes and abandoned his men, and President Nouri al-Maliki dismissed him on 17 June.